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How can I access manipulate text that is placed in a shape in a document.

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Someone has drawn a shape in a document that I need to manipulate. I iterated over all the inline_shapes and can’t see to get to the text within each of the results. I was able to confirm the text exists in the doc using BeautifulSoup and pulling out the XML node the text is in. I also confirmed the text is not part of the tables or the paragraphs objects in the doc.

Is there a way to pull text from within a shape in a doc
If not, is there a way to manipulate the XML directly?

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Created 2 years ago
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scannycommented, Sep 21, 2021

Okay, I think I worked out what you were talking about on your StackOverflow question. Btw, please do not double-post. Support questions are best placed on StackOverflow just because they come up better on search. Also this list is really reserved for actionable items like feature requests or suspected bugs.

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Laxmi530commented, Jun 24, 2022

Well, I assume the element, but the goal is to remove the part of the Word document so there is no residuals left over (space, bullet, text, new lines etc). For example:

Original

[Shape Starts] [line 1] Hello [line 2] World [line 3] - Something [line 4] more [Shape ends]

After

[Shape Starts] [line 1] [line 2] [line 3] - [line 4] more [Shape ends]

Wanted

[Shape Starts] [only line] more [Shape ends]

How to remove the None. It is getting repeated.